Active in online learning and science publishing, Bob Ubell is Vice Dean Emeritus at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. For nearly a decade, he headed Tandon Online, ranked No. 2 by US News & World Report of the nation’s Computer Information Technology online graduate programs. Earlier, he was Dean of online learning at Stevens Institute of Technology and Senior Editor of CHLOE, an annual survey of higher ed online officers, sponsored by Quality Matters. Ubell consults for universities and edtech companies, including Coursera, NYU and The New School, among others. Over his career, Ubell’s online programs have enrolled more than 30,000 students. Recipient of the highest honor given for individual achievement in digital education, the A. Frank Mayadas Leadership Award, Ubell is a Fellow of the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) and a member of the Advisory Board of Online Learning, the journal of OLC, where he served on the organization’s board for a number of years.
Abroad, Ubell headed three blended online master’s at Central University of Finance and Economics and Beijing Institute of Technology. He consults for Beacon Education, a Beijing company that serves Chinese students enrolled in US online graduate programs. In London, he served as American Publisher of Nature, the prominent science weekly, and launched the journal, Nature Biotechnology.
Ubell was editor of the New York Academy of Sciences monthly magazine, The Sciences, executive editor of a number of major reference works, including Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey, and The Astronomy and Astrophysics Encyclopedia (Wiley) and editor of the multivolume series, Masters of Modern Physics (AIP/Springer). A columnist for EdSurge and contributor to Inside Higher Ed and other leading publications, Ubell has contributed nearly 150 articles to scholarly and general periodicals and is the author or editor of 20 books, with the most recent being Going Online and its companion volume, Staying Online.